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The agencies may not be actively preparing for a lapse in appropriations. But contractors are. With a midnight, Friday deadline, and Congress more divided than ever a shutdown is a strong possibility. For steps contractors ought to be taking, we turn the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau.

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Government employees have the types of skills and experience that make them prime candidates for industries struggling with talent shortages. My next guest warns, though, that private sector companies need to prepare themselves for taking on former feds. He's the founder and president of Careerminds, Raymond Lee.

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Artificial intelligences raises storms of questions in every domain it touches. Chief among them, copyright questions. Now the U.S. Copyright Office, a Congressional agency, has completed the second of two studies of AI and copyrights. This one deals with whether you can copyright outputs created using AI. For more, we turn to the Copyright Office's deputy general counsel, Emily Chapuis.

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Like many organizations, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation urges the Trump administration to maintain funding for basic research. Its Center for Life Sciences Innovation cites research showing that federal funding has catalyzed most of the transformative drugs developed in the U.S. More now from center's associate director, Sandra Babosu.

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Chaos may tarry for the night, but the Partnership for Public Service has come out with its Best Places to Work rankings for 2024. Some familiar agencies earned the top spots. The Partnership also found that last year, federal employees reached highest ever engagement scores. Well now agencies from both the top and the bottom face major workforce overhauls under the Trump administration. Here to summarize everything going on for us, Federal News Network's Drew Friedman.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our budget. With a continuing resolution set to expire Thursday, a full-year CR seems likely at this point. For the latest on this and everything else going on in Congress, we turn to WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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Among its duties, the Library of Congress preserves films, TV programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings. The field changes more than you might think. For what they're up to, we turn to the newly appointed Chief of the National Audio-Visual Conservation center, Rachel Stoeljte.

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The Trump administration prepares to end collective bargaining for tens of thousands of airport screeners. The move comes less than a year after Transportation Security Administration employees inked a seven year collective bargaining agreement via the American Federation of Government Employees Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday brings us the latest.

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